Fundamental
Our goal : organizing the exchange of information on thermal spraying at the European level.
ETSA is managed by the Board of Delegates, composed of twelve members elected in a secret vote by the College of Members during the assembly general for four years. They can be re-elected. Members by right: the national representatives of the European countries (one representative per country being active in thermal spraying) are proposed by the national members of the association and accepted by the elected members of the Board of Delegates for four years.
Board of Delegates represents key European universities, research centers and companies involved in thermal spraying, performing research and producing feedstock, equipments and coatings on European and international level. The institutions represented by the delegates gather together hundreds of scientists and engineers dedicated to R&D activities dedicated to base research, applied research, equipment and application development , problem solving in the field of thermal spraying, materials science and engineering...
Meetings and conferences
Dear Colleagues,
The participation in scientific meeting and conferences is a “must” for academia and industry members of our community. The participation enables to keep abreast of recent developments in technology with regard to spray techniques and equipment as well as to spray feedstock or to new coatings’ applications.
To university professor or R&D engineer, the participation in conferences brings new ideas and helps a lot in solving the technical problems. I can remember well a colleague from the USA with whom I could discuss during the recent 5RIPT meeting in Limoges. He showed to me, visibly satisfied of his participation, a notebook filled with the ideas which came to his mind when listening to the presentations.
Not to forget is the chance to hear and to look on the real persons known only from the lecture of their papers and to understand a way of their thinking and reasoning.
On the active side of conference’s participation is the necessity to prepare a paper(s) and presentation(s). When the conferences participation occur too often, it is hard to have something really new and interesting to write and to present. The conferences having proceeding in a scientific journal control carefully the scientific actuality of the contribution what forces to present only the new results.
I hope to meet you soon in one of incoming meetings.
Limoges, the 18 April 2012
Lech Pawłowski
The President of ETSA
Why become member ?
The website of the European Thermal Spray Association provides the useful information to all colleagues interested in thermal spraying in the large societies, job shops, or university laboratories. The ETSA members have access to the additional services such as job proposition, information about services related to thermal spraying in different European countries, forum of users which enbles research of missing information related to thermal spraying and much more.
The ETSA membership enables also a reduction in the fees of the events organized by the association.
